InuYasha Fan Fiction ❯ The Darkness of One's Heart ❯ Chapter 1

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Disclaimer - I do NOT own Inuyasha, nor, sadly will I ever. (T_T) But Umbri belongs to me!!

(AN Please be nice with the reviews, this is my first fan fic. So no flames please)

The Darkness of One's Heart

Chapter One

A dark figure is walking in the remains of a village, as the sun begins to rise. Bodies are everywhere, bodies of men, women, and children. All killed without remorse, without pity, and without a care. The figure, which now that the sun is up high enough that you can tell it's a teenage girl, stops at the middle of the village and looks around at the destruction, that she herself caused. Blood covers her, and in her mind she can still hear the screams of the villagers, she recalls the fear in their eyes and scent. How they looked on in horror as their family and friends died before them, before they themselves were killed. While the she is thinking of these things she smirks.

Just than a man appears behind her. The smirk is gone in an instant, she knows who's behind her, it's the one who created her, her teacher, her master, and her owner. The one who calls himself her father. But she knows better, she knows he's not her real father. She hates him with a passion for all the things he's done to her. He was the one that made her this way, able to kill without remorse, and enjoy it. But she dare not go against him, oh no, he has a much too powerful hold over her. And that hold is based on the fear she has for him, and he uses that to his advantage. That and something else, something that he knows that she craves for, because she's been denied of it since she was created by him. And that thing is the love of a family, knowing that someone cares for you, and is proud of you. He looks around at the carnage, and than looks at the girl he's trained to take over all the taiyoukai of the south, north, east, and even west's lands.

He was the taiyoukai of the central lands. And he knew that none of the other taiyoukai's would suspect him of a take-over. He played them all. All of them think of him as their loyal friend and ally. Boy would they be surprised. He gives the girl a nod and says something to her that she has been wait waiting to hear since the beginning of her training all though centuries ago. "Well done Umbri, you will be ready after one more test, go home and get ready for it." The girl we now know as Umbri nods and walks off into the forest.

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Umbri's eye's snapped open and she shot straight up. "It was only a dream." She gasps. Nightmares were a common thing for Umbri. She had them almost every time she went to sleep. The only time she didn't get them is when she worked herself into exhaustion. She had them ever since she killed Akuma, the lord of the central lands, with the help of her friends. For her "nightmares" were more like memories. Everything in that dream really did happen and she knew what was going to happen next if she had let the dream continue. She shuddered at the memory of it.

Akuma's test was more of going through a torture chamber. He had gotten other youkai's blood and forced it into her genetic make up. However it wasn't the first time he had done this. In fact he had done this many times before, mainly because of her breed. Umbri was a skumoni. (AN I just made that word up, it means mixed blood) The skumoni breed had many different types of magical blood flowing threw their veins. Many of them only had different types of demon blood, but some like Umbri had other blood types too. In fact Umbri had quite a few other blood types besides demon. However most of the blood that Akuma had chosen to be put into her, were of the K-9 type, like inu's, wolves, and kitsune. With all of the magic that flows through the veins of the skumoni many times there will be side affects. In Umbri's case her soul was split in two. One part good, the other bad. The good part was almost always in control and Umbri liked it that way. However when Umbri got truly mad than the evil side would come out. Brion, is what she named her "darker half" as Umbri liked to call it, and what a darker half it was. It would kill anything and everything that got in the way of her goal. Which was to rule over every living thing on this earth. Brion is smart, strong, dangerous, and many more things, but one of the few things Brion was not was insane. In fact Brion was smart, very smart. Brion was her anger and hatred mixed together, Brion was created by Akuma and was in control until Akuma sent Umbri or Brion on one special mission, and Akuma would regret that decision the rest of his life. But Umbri didn't like thinking about what happened with Akuma so she quickly tried to stop thinking about that.

Many demons saw the skumoni breed as inferior, weak, and dirty because of all the mixes in the blood. But the oldest, wisest demons knew that the skumoni if trained right could easily be more powerful than most demons. That was the case for Umbri, although she might not have looked that strong, in human years Umbri looked 15, even though she was older than many adult demons Umbri's ageing was slowed down by all the mixes in her blood. She stood about 5'5', (still growing) had a perfect figure, brown hair with beautiful blonde highlights. A black tail with silver highlights. Black wings, fangs, and long, sharp, deadly, claws. She also has the most beautiful yet indescribable dark blue eyes, and if you looked at them closely you could tell that they had once had a sparkle to them but some terrible event had to have happened to her in order for those sparkles to disappear. She also had two navy blue stripes on each cheek and a light blue flame on her forehead.

Umbri jumped off the branch she had been sleeping in and started walking. To where, she didn't know. Perhaps a place to escape the guilt that clung to her, the guilt of knowing she killed thousands of innocent people and youkai, the guilt of not being able to protect friends that meant so much to her, the guilt that she still lived and others died, when it should have been her that died. Or maybe a place to escape the loneliness, the ache Umbri felt in her heart when she thought of him. Rico. Her once worst enemy, then best friend, and eventually one and only love. Oh how it hurt to think of him, and how she couldn't save him. He died defending her. And while she was fighting off the rest of their attackers she got separated from his body. When she went back to find his body it was gone. She couldn't even give him a proper burial. The only things left were his dark purple and silver bandana, that she now wore on her upper left arm, and a unfamiliar scent, she tried following it but eventually she lost the trail. That's why she now, just walks around pointlessly, she just hopes that one day she'll come across it again and find out what happened to her dear Rico. And even though she saw him "die" part of her still believed that he was alive, after all his body was gone maybe he crawled away to safety? But if that was true why didn't he come looking for her? Umbri didn't know what to believe. But she knew she would never be able to let him go until she knew what happened to his body.

Just than Umbri heard sounds of a battle up ahead. She decided to see what was happening and sped towards the sounds of the battle. And when she got there what she saw made her blood run cold, and anger rise.